Stir-Fried Chili-Garlic Beef

For this stir-fry, we like to use either beef sirloin tips (also called sirloin flap meat) or flat iron steak. No matter which cut you choose, it’s important to thinly slice the beef against the grain. This helps make the meat more tender because the muscle fibers are shortened instead of long and stringy. Use an electric spice grinder to pulverize the Sichuan peppercorns to a powder. Serve the stir-fry with plenty of steamed rice.